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Sex Trafficking In Romania: Trans-Atlantic Sex Trade Of 2022

Agamapar ChadhaJuly 4, 20220

Sex-Trafficking is a significant problem in today’s world. Individuals are trafficked for labour (28% of human trafficking ), and females specifically and predominantly as sex slaves(72% of all human trafficking). Romanian females as young as 10 years form a third of the sex trafficking in the United Kingdom. Romania is one of the more economically backward countries in Europe, with little to nothing for the locals not living in Romania’s capital city Bucharest. Hence recruiters go up to young girls and charm and flatter them. These young girls then listen to their middle-aged ‘boyfriends’ who pretend to be in love with them. Girls, unbeknownst to them, are at the time recruited from their schoolyard by these men. In 2021 there were 429 cases of sex trafficking identified in Romania. Ha...

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Sexual Exploitation Of Girls: Japan Continues To Allow Underage Prostitution

Agamapar ChadhaJune 23, 20220

Japan always has faced backlash for sexualising and prostitution of young and pubescent children. After enough calls were made to Japan from other countries to illegalise Child Pornography and prostitution in 1999, this law had a loophole as it outlawed “production, transport, import and export, as well as possession of child pornography for the aforementioned purposes.” It took till 2014 on 18th June for Japan to illegalise possession of child pornography which was legal even after 1999 after being internationally pressured again. The government frustratingly Paedophiles a year to dispose of all the videos. Otherwise, the paedophiles will be imprisoned for a year and have to pay $10,000. Yet this problem continues in different forms in Japan. “Enjo Kosai’’ (援助交際), translated as